On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:00:09PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:> What is the right procedure for doing changes like this? Is "don't> touch that tree" a permanent condition, or am I going to get a chance> to clean up the global CONFIG_ namespace after your next merge-down?

Our current status is that we've got a patch with Alan that's been sittingin his tree for a while (things got trickier than he expected and hehasn't been able to merge that upstream to Linus yet). Meanwhile we'vecarried on development as normal. So even after the patches in Alan'stree land, we've still got a fair hunk of changes to go in.My preference would be for you to fetch our tree

and submit patches to us, which will get to Linus in the fullness of time.I'm aware this might not be terribly satisfactory for you, but we'redoing our best not to lose our way amid the churn of development rightnow and having patches which haven't followed a progression throughus makes that significantly harder.

> Could I ask you to audit your tree and change the prefix on any > CONFIG_ symbols that are private over there? This would make life > easier for my auditing tools (kxref and Stephen Cole's ach script).

I don't think we have any of those. We certainly have symbols which aredefined for symmetry and may not actually be used yet (CONFIG_PA11 might notbe, perhaps). But that's what happens when you're developing software :-)